Improvement in hat-fohk



" DORCHESTER & SCOTT.

Hay Fork.

No. 84,712. Patented Dec. "a, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 84,712, dated December 8, 1868. A

IMPROVEMENT IN BLAY-FORK `4-40 v The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentend making part of the same.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that We, E. G. DORGHESTER and URI SCOTT, of Geneva, 1n the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Hay-Fork; and we do hereby A declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription thereof, reference being had. to the accoinpanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section;

Figure 2 is transverse section, showing the shape and anangement of the tines in the ferrule.

The nature of our invention will beV understood from the drawings and specifications.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our. invention, we will describe its construction and operation. l l

The tines, A, of our fork are made separate, and the ends which enter the ferrule are made three-square, as shown in iig. 2. They also have asmall projection,

as shown at a, fig. l, which rests against the inside of the out end of the ferrule C.

Theopening in the end of the ferrule C is made sufiiciently large to admit the tines of the fork, and also a wedfe B.

e a small screw, put through the ferrule against the. wedge, to prevent it from getting out.

The object of our invention is to make a fork, the i y The wedge Bis driven-over the tines, until they are firm, which prevents the tines from rising and allowing the projections a to be released from the inside ofthe yend of the ferrule.

-The screw e prevents the wedge B 'from slipping out. If at any time a tine breaks, all that is necessary is to relieve the screw e, withdraw the wedge B, and replacethe broken by a new tine.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tincs A, when constructed as herein shown and described, land wedge B, and screw e, or its equivalent, in combination with the ferrule C, all acting conjointly, as and for the purpose set forth.

1 URI SCOTT.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. MITCHELL, FREDK W. PRINCE. 

